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Top 5 Bands of all time?

Paddingtonwolf said:
Fat bottomed Girls has an absolutely epic riff. You need to get your ears cleaned out.
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Agreed. Bicycle Race is weird and an acquired taste but FBG is an awesome song.

Do you know "Dead On Time" Pad? One of my favourite lesser known Queen songs. Another epic riff from May and one of their heaviest songs.
 
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It has, still an awful song though, of it’s time I suppose, bicycle race has epic bell action on it still shite.
I’m not a queen fan, they’ve done some good stuff
Hammer to fall
Breakthrough
Crazy little thing called love
Seven seas of rhye
That’s about it for me.

Think we said pretty much the same things in the old thread like this
 
I mean come on, Bo Rap is one of the greatest songs ever written.
 
It’s Late is the greatest Queen song committed to vinyl. Fucking love that song
 
Right, at the Freddie mercury tribute concert in 1992 (I think) they did a cover of Stone Cold Crazy with James Hetfield (who looked about 16) and Tony Iommi, absolutely epic :)
 
This is impossible to narrow down:
1: Rolling Stones
2: Beatles
3: Cream
4: Metallica
5: Fleetwood Mac

Worthy mentions to The Who, Led Zepplin, REM, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Oasis, Stone Roses, Beach Boys, Deep Purple, TRex, Joy Division

Some huge bands I never really got: Queen, U2, Guns & Roses
 
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I know music is just a matter of taste and I was always told not to say anything unless you've got something nice to say, but.....

All my life I have wondered if people have been brainwashed by the hype about The Beatles. A lot of average pop music with three or four excellent tracks, but oh so much dross (When I'm 64, Maxwells Silver Hammer, Reveloution 9, Flying...etc etc).

Don't want to forum argue with anyone, but go back and listen to this stuff...some of it is so poor.

Just an opinion - I'm sure a lot of what I listen to is crap as well!!
 
You've just named three of my favourites...
 
You can say that about most bands, especially with album tracks. I'm in no rush to listen to Little James or Gas Panic by Oasis ever again.
 
Hereford Wolf said:
I know music is just a matter of taste and I was always told not to say anything unless you've got something nice to say, but.....

All my life I have wondered if people have been brainwashed by the hype about The Beatles. A lot of average pop music with three or four excellent tracks, but oh so much dross (When I'm 64, Maxwells Silver Hammer, Reveloution 9, Flying...etc etc).

Don't want to forum argue with anyone, but go back and listen to this stuff...some of it is so poor.

Just an opinion - I'm sure a lot of what I listen to is crap as well!!
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The Beatles are almost universally acknowledged by musicians and fans from all genres as the band that redefined pop music , there is no arguing that, the ripple effect of what they did, still resonates to this day, I think what songs people perceive as poor are just not up to the standards of other Beatles songs that are iconic masterpieces, they wrote over 200 songs, they couldn't all be Yesterday, don't get me wrong if Nickelback had wrote Yellow Submarine, they would have been took out and shot, there is no brainwashing the Beatles changed the world, it's incontestable
 
I discounted the Beatles when I first started listening properly to music in the early 70s, thought it was old persons music, now I really appreciate what they did. Their stuff was ground breaking, pretty much no-one wrote and performed their own stuff back then. Then they changes track a bit with flower power and hippy/trippy music. Think they actually packed up at just yhe right time.
 
If you grew up listening to the Beatles and followed how they progressed as a band you would appreciate there impact on World music and so much more. I guess you had to be there. With regards Queen, Brighton Rock with a stunning vocal and really decent guitar work. Queen II is my favourite album of theirs.
 
sycophantia said:
I discounted the Beatles when I first started listening properly to music in the early 70s, thought it was old persons music, now I really appreciate what they did. Their stuff was ground breaking, pretty much no-one wrote and performed their own stuff back then. Then they changes track a bit with flower power and hippy/trippy music. Think they actually packed up at just yhe right time.
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the flower power thing is an interesting one, as reading some of the history there was a lot of 'cross pollination' of ideas in that period so as to who was originating the ideas is at best uncertain. for instance Donovan wrote his psych album sunshine superman a year before Pepper and surrealistic pillow were released but its release was delayed (until after those two) due to a record company dispute. Donovan's manager told him not to let McCartney hear it which given the scene was not a credible suggestion. not to say the Beatles didn't have their own great ideas, but they were great copyists as well.
 
Arctic Monkeys
Milburn
London Grammar
The Maccabees
Oasis

Hard to narrow down though
 
nimrod said:
the flower power thing is an interesting one, as reading some of the history there was a lot of 'cross pollination' of ideas in that period so as to who was originating the ideas is at best uncertain. for instance Donovan wrote his psych album sunshine superman a year before Pepper and surrealistic pillow were released but its release was delayed (until after those two) due to a record company dispute. Donovan's manager told him not to let McCartney hear it which given the scene was not a credible suggestion. not to say the Beatles didn't have their own great ideas, but they were great copyists as well.
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I have Donovan`s autobiography. I think he`s done everything except invent the wheel.
 
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